Joining clan battles doesn't work, eh? Is that because of the chat stuff, you think?

The chat issue is seemingly not a patch-related matter. Issues started the night before the 9.20.1 patch happened (Oct. 18th, I believe). It seems to have worked until Thursday evening (19th), and worked rarely until Monday morning. Broken again Thursday. Rinse and repeat for this week; seems to work OK Mon-tuesday, stopped working again yesterday.

Point is - that pattern would suggest that they either give the server a kick Monday morning or that it's random and no one's actually working on it. Both are equally bad, and the total silence on this after Oct. 23rd (CCs confirming that it seems to have started working again) is very much suggestive of the lack of effort put in by Wargaming EU.

I'd be more wary about stuff like this happening without any real communication on the issue; if you are truly unhappy with how the chat issue has been going on for close to two weeks now, join the crapstorm generation and keep complaint threads up. Remind other players what's going on.

Oh, and before you think the Community Contributors/Manager is the issue, just look at how involved the Head of Global Player Relations and Head of Community Management are:

The fools aren't on the forums, and apparently not checking their e-mails either. Fun, huh? They only come out of the woodwork to apologize for multi-week server troubles or when they fudged up after they told the Community Manager to threaten with a DMCA copyright strike to take down content they deemed not fitting for a Community Contributor.
They also managed to throw more fuel on the fire by claiming the "offender" was homophobic (?). Straight out of a goddarn SJW handbook; which you can smell right down to the in-forum reporting system - if something's offensive to you, you can be sure it's dealt with (unless it's making fun of the staff, that's apparently kosher).

Well if you are more competent. They by all means. Fix it, or tell them how to prevent it in the future. Then again... did you update your mods? As patch today broke everyone of them. And that can lead to UI issues. And chat was broken before the patch. It has been broken on NA for longer, so the update was not the cause of that.

It's getting beyond a joke now. These bugs have been going on for over a week.

We arranged a Clan War on Friday, we get a team together everyone turns up, then the servers bugged out. We're told CW are off until end of halloween promo. So Monday arrives and we get 10 mins notice for the match we shoulda had on Friday, much rushing about trying to get a team together without any notice, cheers for that.

Now Skirmishes are bugged out, half the clan can't even join in.... error loading data, looks like every clan is having the same issue, everyone in the list is half made teams

FFS how hard can it be. Just bin the Halloween rubbish, give everyone the rewards they mite have won, put the IT support staff on overtime and keep them working until everything is working back to normal, then give them a pay bonus, and make sure any new game modes don't bug out the game BEFORE you let them go live.

How do you expect clans to keep teams interested? FFS help us out here.

Well if you are more competent. They by all means. Fix it, or tell them how to prevent it in the future. Then again... did you update your mods? As patch today broke everyone of them. And that can lead to UI issues. And chat was broken before the patch. It has been broken on NA for longer, so the update was not the cause of that.

Well if you are more competent. They by all means. Fix it, or tell them how to prevent it in the future. Then again... did you update your mods? As patch today broke everyone of them. And that can lead to UI issues. And chat was broken before the patch. It has been broken on NA for longer, so the update was not the cause of that.

Is this a wind-up? Like, are you being serious? It's not my job to be competent at coding this game, that's the job of the people who get paid for it. I'm competent at the job I do, if I was as incompetent as WG'ing are - I doubt I'd still be doing it.

For for mods - don't have any.

As for chat, it had started working for me (and most others I know), until this patch came out. Kinda makes the patch quite a good target for the blame, no?

It has nothing to do with XVM, it's more or less random if it manages to connect when you join a server; however it sometimes works just fine for everyone or not at all. Sometimes just on EU1 or EU2 - which makes no sense considering the chat server is apparently separate (looking up host name location is says 'Den Haag', not Amsterdam like EU2).

Garage UI bugs are not uncommon when using mods, though I guess bugs as a whole aren't uncommon either.

It has nothing to do with XVM, it's more or less random if it manages to connect when you join a server; however it sometimes works just fine for everyone or not at all. Sometimes just on EU1 or EU2 - which makes no sense considering the chat server is apparently separate (looking up host name location is says 'Den Haag', not Amsterdam like EU2).

Garage UI bugs are not uncommon when using mods, though I guess bugs as a whole aren't uncommon either.

Is this a wind-up? Like, are you being serious? It's not my job to be competent at coding this game, that's the job of the people who get paid for it. I'm competent at the job I do, if I was as incompetent as WG'ing are - I doubt I'd still be doing it.

For for mods - don't have any.

As for chat, it had started working for me (and most others I know), until this patch came out. Kinda makes the patch quite a good target for the blame, no?

It's not a bad idea to clean up common misconceptions about certain issues, it helps to keep complaint threads on-topic and in-line, making it obvious what the issues revolve around without resorting to creating a poll to make a point cough. Anyway, posted this three-four posts earlier, I've done some day-to-day observations:

Aikl, on 02 November 2017 - 08:35 PM, said:

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The chat issue is seemingly not a patch-related matter. Issues started the night before the 9.20.1 patch happened (Oct. 18th, I believe). It seems to have worked until Thursday evening (19th), and worked rarely until Monday morning. Broken again Thursday. Rinse and repeat for this week; seems to work OK Mon-tuesday, stopped working again yesterday.

Point is - that pattern would suggest that they either give the server a kick Monday morning or that it's random and no one's actually working on it. Both are equally bad, and the total silence on this after Oct. 23rd (CCs confirming that it seems to have started working again) is very much suggestive of the lack of effort put in by Wargaming EU.

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I'd be more wary about stuff like this happening without any real communication on the issue; if you are truly unhappy with how the chat issue has been going on for close to two weeks now, join the crapstorm generation and keep complaint threads up. Remind other players what's going on.

Oh, and before you think the Community Contributors/Manager is the issue, just look at how involved the Head of Global Player Relations and Head of Community Management are:

The fools aren't on the forums, and apparently not checking their e-mails either. Fun, huh? They only come out of the woodwork to apologize for multi-week server troubles or when they fudged up after they told the Community Manager to threaten with a DMCA copyright strike to take down content they deemed not fitting for a Community Contributor.
They also managed to throw more fuel on the fire by claiming the "offender" was homophobic (?). Straight out of a goddarn SJW handbook; which you can smell right down to the in-forum reporting system - if something's offensive to you, you can be sure it's dealt with (unless it's making fun of the staff, that's apparently kosher).